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NOTICE  TO  JUDICIAL  OFFICERS 

TAKING  TESTIMONY  IN  CASES  OF  SLAVES  ABDUCTED  OR  HAREORED  BY 
THE  ENEMY,  AND  OF  OTHER  PROPERTY  SEIZED,  WASTED,  OR  DE- 
STROYED   LY   THEM. 


1.    The  owner  of  slaves  abducted   or  harbored    by  the  .  or  of  other  property  seized, 

wasted  or  destroyed    by    them,  shall 
ownership  and  of  loss  by  such  abdi 
be  not  living,  or  if  laboring  under  the  legal  disability  of  infancy,  insanity  or  coverture,  then  the 
legal  representative  <>f  Buch  owner  shall   make  affidavit  of  ownership  and  loss  <«r  injury. 


•ted  or  harbored   by  the  enemy,  or  of  other  property  seized,      t 

II,  if  living,  either  by   himself  or  attorney,  mike  affidavit  of    / 

on,  harboring,  seizure,  waste  or  destruction  ;  if  the  owner    * 


2.  In  no  case  will  the  affidavit  of  the  owner,  attorney  or  legal  representative  be  taken  as 
evidence  of  the  fact  of  loss,  unless  it  shall  appear  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  judicial  officer  taking 
the  same  that  no  other  and  better  evidence  can  be  obtained,  which  fad  shall  distinctly  appear  in 
the  certificate  of  such  officer 

::.  The  judicial  officer  shall  reduce  to  writing  the  oral  evidence  offered  in  support  of  the 
alleged  ownership  and  loss  or  injury;  and  the  evidence  thus  reduced  to  writing,  together  with 
the  affidavits  taken  by  him,  shall  be  transmitted  by  him  to  the  Secretary  of  State  within  thirty 

days  from  the  day  of  hearing. 

I.  The  judicial  officer  shall  state  in  his  certificate  whether  the  evidence  so  heard  and  trans- 
mitted  is  or  is  not  entitled   to  credit. 

5.  Evidence  shall  also  he  taken,  or  affidavit  made,  and  transmitted  with  the  other  evidence, 
showing  the  state  or  i  ountry  of  which  the  owner  alleging  loss  or  injury  was  a  citizen  at  the  time. 
of  such   loss  or  injury  and   at  the  time  of  offering  evidence  or  making  affidavit, 

G.   In  ease  the  Department  should  be  required  to  furnish  cert i fie  papers  filed, 

the  charge   for  furnishing  the  same,  as  established  by  law,  will   !>>•  ti  a  ■  ery  hundred 

words  of  copy. 

\VM     \\     BROWNE, 

Acting  Scrctary  of  Stale 
Department  of  State,  Richmond,  Oct.  25.  1S01. 


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